Halloween Luncheon with my girlys

My Halloween Luncheon with my Young Women from church. I love these girls so much and wanted to serve them a fun 7 course lunch. I found cute skull charger plates at the dollar store. I pretty much had everything else. I made wiches brooms from brown lunch bags. I dry brushed then with a brown paint. I filled then with goodies, then I stuck a tree branch in the bag and tied it with Raffia. I then put their names on the bags for the place seating. i had cone shaped plastic bags left over from my Daughters wedding, so I filled them with Pop corn as a little extra. 

The Witches hats were Moon pies and a sugar cone rolled in chocolate.

First course was mini cheese balls with mini toasts, artichoke dip with chips and a marinara sauce with bone breadsticks.

The Candy Buffet or

The Candy Bar

 We ordered around 150 pounds of candy for 250 guests . The chocolate went first. I ordered extra M&Ms, they were the first to go. It was rather funny.....the ladies were serious about getting their candy...more so than the children. I ordered florist picks from online store. I made the candy labels from the labels we addressed the envelopes with. The banner we made from material in the scrapbook section. It read "Love is sweet" We also made 2 signs that read "Parents please accompany your children" for obvious reasons ;) The sucker stands my husband made out of extra closet rods we had left over from remodeling our closet. I left the Bride to be in charge of decorating the glass containers. We looked every where from Target, Home Goods, Ross, even the Thrift stores to find them.

 This is the Grooms Grandma getting a few more pieces at the end of the Reception.

The cousins and their suckers!

This is blurry but so worth posting! The little cousin of the Bride hiding under the candy table!

Glass ornaments filled with baby shower announcements, Graduation Announcements, Wedding Invitations..

I got so carried away that I did not do any before pictures of the Shower invite (it had a cute little pink bow on it)

I also had the polka dotted "Thank You card" from the shower. Lastly was the birth announcement. It had the picture of the new family that I used.

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The High School Graduation Announcement

1. Here is everything that came in the announcement

 2. I cut out the Schools Emblem and the year 2011. from the inside I cut out the cougar paw prints. I then cut everything into strips. I wanted the school colors to show. Below is what I had after cutting everything.

 3. You then twist the strips around a small skewer or paint brush handle. I DID NOT twist the Graduates name...the year of graduation or the date of the graduation. I wanted to be able to read them through the glass. I also left the paw prints and the school emblem in tack. I then pushed the twists into the glass ornament. I then shoved a paint brush in and moved them all around. Lastly I placed the paper I wanted everyone to read in last. I put the graduates picture in very last. I repositioned stuff with a small paint brush.

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 This was a Wedding Invitation.  The ribbon was from the invite.